fliddern.
/ˈflɪdə/ A local name for the limpet.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > limpet > member of superfamily Patellacea
limpetc1050
limpin1585
centre fish1668
pap shell1678
flidder1769
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 195 The next baits in esteem are..limpets (called here [i.e. in Scarborough] Flidders).
1867 M. S. Lovell Edible Mollusks Great Brit. & Ireland 120 In the Isle of Man..they [limpets] are known by the name of ‘flitters’.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘He sticks like a flither.’
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